Year 2018 is drawing to its conclusion. The past months, alike life itself, were full of ups and downs. It was a real Dickens of a job putting all the issues of the Baltic Transport Journal and the Harbours Review together - dozens of articles and hundreds of news items and Market SMSes, not to mention all the add-ons, such as our maps or the Baltic Yearbook.

The Danish shipping company will on 24 September deploy a larger container carrier on a loop that connects England's east shore with Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, and Finland.

In its pursuit of attracting more cruise calls, the Latvian port has become a member of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA).

The shipping company has put additional tonnage in its Gdynia-Karlskrona, Liepāja-Travemünde, and Frederikshavn-Gothenburg services.

RB Rail, a company responsible for developing the Baltics-wide standard gauge railway, has chosen DB Engineering & Consulting to iron out a long-term business plan and strategy for the project.

The Danish shipping and logistics company has acquired 100% of the share capital of the Rotterdam-based Alphatrans Group.